History YMMV / ZuluSquadNoTsukaima

* MoralEventHorizon: Cromwell crosses this when he [[spoiler: sacrifices [[GoodShepherd Cardinal Halstaff]] and [[BigFun Gilbert Sullivan]]]] to help revive the {{Big Bad}},[[spoiler: [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Alduin]].]]

* LesYay: Played with when Lugo and Crosby walk in on Louise kissing Siesta.
** Ultimately subverted in the following chapter, as in the anime [[NotWhatItLooksLike Louise mistook Siesta for Saito]].
* MemeticMutation: The author's nickname of referring to Louise as the ''pinkette''.
** Also, the Damned 33rd's own nickname for Louise; the '[[HairTriggerTemper Walking IED']].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: When the Weaver of Fate [[KleptomaniacHero 'acquires']] new technology in the form of [[spoiler: the prototype T-15 Armata]] the president makes an appearance. Though he is not named, it's [[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin pretty obvious]] who he is.

* ArchiveBinge: You've got One Hundred and Ninety-something chapters to go through if you want to get to the lastest chapter good luck.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The author really wants to drive ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine's'' message of WhatMeasureIsAMook with all the consequences of Walker's actions in the game being told through flashbacks. Then again, it might be a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

** The Weaver of Fate, aka [[spoiler: [[TheSilmarillion Lúthien Tinúviel]]]] spends a lot of time [[TenderTears weeping]] over her charges whenever they are injured or are faced with difficulties.

* {{Anvilicious}}: the author really wants to drive ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine's'' message of WhatMeasureIsAMook with all the consequences of Walker's actions in the game being told through flashbacks. Then again, it might be a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Storyteller alternates between this and JerkassGod, especially when it is revealed that the whole reason the BigBad is in Helkeginia is because He permitted it.
** Another interpretation is that the Storyteller is putting the BigBad [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Alduin]]]] in his place, saying that as evil as he is, the BigBad is still subjected to the Storyteller.
* CerebusSyndrome: The fic starts out as your standard ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' crossover, with the [[FishOutOfWater OC and his fellow soldiers]] being [[LampshadeHanging bewildered]] by the girls with their [[AmazingTechnicolorHair brightly colored hair]], [[TaremeEyes doe eyes]], and [[{{Tsundere}} mood swings]]; then during the Battle for Tristainia and it shifts solidly into ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' territory.
** Specifically, the war starts out like most crossovers involving superior tech with MoreDakka, DeathFromAbove, and GatlingGood, but then shows [[RealityEnsues what happens]] when their barely tested guns fail and they [[ZergRush get overrun]]. See WarIsHell.

* DudeNotFunny: Saito reacts this way to Sgt. Crosby when the latter jokes about using the bathing cauldron to [[CrossesTheLineTwice boil Louise into a stew]] and [[RefugeInAudacity serve her to the nobles as a gesture of defiance]].
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Crosby and his companions reverse engineer their guns to supply the outnumbered Tristainian army with cartridge firing weapons, [[GatlingGood hand-cranking Gatling guns]] and Anti-Aircraft guns.
** [[RealityEnsues subverted]] in that late in the first battle the barely-tested weapons misfire and jam under pressure.
* HuskyRusskie: Subverted with Captain Bylinkin and his companions, as Soviet tanker crews had strict height requirements due to the cramped confines of their tanks.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: just like the [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine video game]], there are instances no good deed goes unpunished.
** In the first arc, where Crosby and company help Prince Wales escape the Reconquista's clutches in Albion, only to be [[spoiler: killed by [[TheMole Count Wardes]].]]
** For that matter, [[spoiler: Lugo]] rescuing Siesta from the lecherous Count Mott was his first good deed when he got to Helkeginia, until it's revealed that the count was a close personal friend of King Jozef of Gallia.
*** It's made even worse when it's revealed that [[spoiler: the king [[MoralEventHorizon had all of the count's staff executed]] to cover it up and place the blame on Lugo.]]
* NobleDemon: Cromwell's [[VillainousFriendship friend and right-hand man]] Sir Percival of Hockspur comes off as this, as he seems to genuinely think the Reconquista's idea of [[WellIntentionedExtremist turning Albion into a republic]] is a better alternative to what he saw as a corrupt monarchy.
** [[PetTheDog His interactions]] [[FriendlyEnemy with Sgt. Crosby]] reinforces this.
** and again he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards genuinely disgusted]] with Sheffield when she [[spoiler: has Konrad's blacksmith shop torched, knowing full well that there are two teenagers who would die as a result.]]
* WarIsHell: subverted initially in the early stages of the Damned 33rd's first battle against the Reconquista, where the author gleefully [[WarIsGlorious tap-dances back and forth]] over the line between {{rated M for manly}} to {{do not do this cool thing}}.
** Then as the battle wears on it is played painfully straight as the Reconquista's numbers [[ZergRush overrun the 33rd's defenses]] and leads the reader to think that this is the 33rd's {{last stand}}.
** It [[{{Anvilicious}} hammers the point home]] in the ensuing chapter after the first battle when the [[NewMeat students from the Academy]] who fought in the battle have to [[HeroicBSOD come to terms]] with [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone all the death and destruction they caused]]. One of the soldiers of the 33rd outright quotes the trope in the chapter.

** [[StoicWoobie Crosby and pretty much any of the Damned 33rd]] to a greater or lesser degree fit this as well.

* Gratuitous Russian: Happens in the flashback sequences with Vasiliy Bylinkin.
** Justified in that the flashback is told via Konrad reading the tank commander's diary.